Expert guides about caregiving in Tennessee from Brevy Care.
Can you get paid to care for your spouse in Tennessee? Through TennCare's main self-directed option the answer is no, but a 2025 state law and two VA pathways can put a spouse on payroll.
When an older adult in Tennessee stops driving, the hard part isn't that rides don't exist.
Dementia care in Tennessee is one of the hardest jobs a family can take on, and you do not have to do it alone.
Tennessee caregivers, save this number first: 1-866-836-6678.
Tennessee runs no Medicaid personal-care entitlement, so every pathway that pays a family caregiver lives inside one of three programs: CHOICES, ECF CHOICES, or Katie Beckett.
Tennessee has three pathways that can pay a family member as a caregiver, plus respite vouchers, grants, and VA benefits that most families are never told about.
If you are caring for an aging parent or spouse in Tennessee and running on empty, funded respite care can give you a real break without draining your savings.
For most of the last decade, Tennessee was one of the hardest states in the country to be paid as a family caregiver. That changed in 2025.